Cherry Hill used to be called Zhujiazhuang. Since Zhu Chensi established a village here, the Zhu family has successively planted cherry trees in front of and behind the village, and finally 20 years ago, it became the largest cherry manor within a radius of 1,000 miles. As a result, people gradually forgot the name "Zhujiazhuang" and called it "Cherry Villa".

Zhu Chensi is Zhu Jianye's father and Zhu Dongfan's grandfather. Now, Zhu Chensi and Zhu Jianye, father and son, have successively driven west, and Zhu Dongfan has naturally become the owner of Cherry Villa.

Speaking of this Zhu Chensi, he is indeed a great character.

One hundred and six years ago, Zhu Chensi's mother gave birth to him. His father, Zhu Sanwa, didn't want to give his son such a local name like his father Zhu Wulang, and decided to give his son an elegant name, but an old peasant who had no ink on his chest could come up with an elegant name? Thinking that his son was born at the turn of Tatsumi, he gave him the name Zhu Chensi.

At the age of eleven, Zhu Chensi began to help a distant cousin in business. By the age of sixteen, he had set up his own business, selling grain, and often proclaimed that he was a member of the royal family, but in fact, even his grandfather and father did not know about this problem. I don't know if there is a reason for this, but the business is actually doing very well. In less than 20 years, he has become one of the richest people in the county.

By the age of forty-three, Zhu decided to buy a piece of land and build a manor. So I spent a lot of money and invited a well-known feng shui master in Shu to choose a location. It is said that the feng shui master's surname is Yang, and he claims to be a descendant of Yang Gong, which is very accurate.

Master Yang got a lot of money, and he really worked hard, and spent more than three months looking for the dragon, and finally selected this piece of treasure land with a real dragon vein, mountains and waters, dragons, caves, sand, and water, and suggested that Zhu Chensi buy it, saying that it will be able to urge officials to make fortune.

After Zhu Chensi bought the land, when he was ready to build a house, he invited Master Yang, and gave him another hundred taels of gold, begging him to choose the homestead, fix the word, and see a good day and auspicious day to dial the needle and go down the stone, so as to ensure that his Zhu family is prosperous for a hundred generations.

It is said that Master Na Yang smiled and said: "Mr. Zhu, how can there be a person in the world who changes the destiny of heaven and takes the merits of heaven? Don't you hear that 'the gentleman's ze, the fifth generation will be killed'! How can there be glory and wealth for thousands of years? Now you can be blessed to get this treasure land, which is the result of the great yin and skull accumulated by your ancestors." Don't ask for too much, it is a great blessing to be able to bless future generations to turn evil into good fortune and be auspicious in distress!"

It took Zhu Chensi more than three years to build Zhujiazhuang. On the gate of today's villa, there is also a couplet engraved by Master Yang after the manor was built: "Borrow the Nine Heavens True Yuan Wonderful Qi, and complete the auspicious house to protect the heirs." The horizontal connection is: "Skillfully borrow from heaven." ”

Sure enough, since the Zhu family lived in this house, the business has become more and more prosperous, to get the wind and the rain, to the wind, to the rain, to now, not only have thousands of acres of land, but also in many places in the central Sichuan area, there are also their own industries.

Eleven years ago, Zhu Dongfan personally took his men to transport a batch of valuable medicinal materials to the Yishengge Medicine Store in Jinling, but was robbed by the four evils of Bayue Mountain on the way and was captured. The four evils of Bayue extorted 10,000 taels of gold from the Zhu family, demanding that it be delivered within five days, otherwise they would be killed.

Although the Zhu family has abundant financial resources, how can they do it in such a short period of time to gather such a large amount of money? Fortunately, the Zhu family found Fang Zhiju in time and asked him for help.

Fang Zhiju led thirty of his subordinates to kill Bayue Mountain, subdued the four evils of Bayue and his subordinates, rescued Zhu Dongfan, and retrieved the looted medicinal materials.

Kindness is repaid. Now, it's time for him to return.

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Zhu Dongfan knows how to enjoy it very well, and after summer comes, he usually has to take a nap until the first moment of Shen Shi before getting up slowly.

Today is no exception. After Zhu Dongfan got up, he ordered someone to make tea, and was sitting in the inner room slowly tasting tea, when suddenly the housekeeper Zhu Gui hurriedly came in to report: "There is a group of people in a hurry outside, with blades on their bodies, and some people are injured, claiming to be people from Chaotian Fort, and they are anxious to see you!"

"Oh, go take a look!" Zhu Dongfan immediately stood up and strode out, and Zhu Gui hurriedly trotted behind him.

Walking out of the village, I saw more than a dozen sweaty people in front of the door, holding swords in their hands, their expressions were a little flustered, and they looked back at the way from time to time with a wary gaze. The horse behind him was sweating profusely, panting for breath.

A man in his forties was supported by two companions, his face was as white as paper, and he appeared to be seriously injured. A middle-aged beautiful woman with disheveled hair holds a knife in one hand and grips the hand of a girl in a green shirt next to her with the other. The girl's complexion was extremely beautiful, her cherry lips were closed, a few locks of sweaty hair were attached to her cheeks, large beads of sweat were sliding down her fair cheeks and her beautiful nose, and there was a trace of childishness in her frightened eyes, and the hand holding the sword was trembling slightly.

A man in a green robe stepped forward quickly, crossed his two fingers on his chest, and said urgently: "Wanderers from all over the world, return to people on stormy nights." ”

"Your Excellency?" Zhu Dongfan's heart was shocked, knowing that Chaotian Fort was in trouble, his face changed color.

"Chaotian Fort Qiankun Hall Master Yin Tianjin. Something happened to Chaotian Fort!The Lord of Fangbao ordered us to protect Mrs. and Young Master and Miss to return to Qingcheng Mountain, but we were caught up by the enemy, and we came to ask the owner for help!" Yin Tianjin finished in one breath.

"Drive!" "Drive!" The sound of shouting and the galloping hooves of the horses approached, Zhu Dongfan looked at the road, but saw a group of people and horses wrapped in smoke and dust on the avenue two miles away, and ran to the edge of the cherry forest with a rainbow, and disappeared into the road between the cherry forests in a blink of an eye.

"Come in!" Zhu Dongfan's expression suddenly tightened, and he waved his hand quickly to signal Yin Tianjin and his party to enter the village.

The group was busy entering the village, and Zhu Dongfan was about to drink and close the door, but saw that Yin Tianjin had already led the six brothers to turn around and rush out, and turned around and shouted: "Master Zhu, close the gate quickly! Let's go to meet the enemy!"

Mrs. Fang chased after her with two knives, and said sharply: "Fight with them!"

Yin Tianjin saw that Mrs. Fang had followed, and said hurriedly: "Madam, go back quickly, protect the young master and young lady!"

Before the words fell, Qiu Ling had already led everyone to rush to the place of a stone's throw in front of the village, and they got off their horses on the forest road, bolted the horses to the trunks of the trees beside the road, and rushed to the village gate with murderous spirits in their hands.

Yin Tianjin let out a loud shout and greeted Qiu Ling at the front. Qiu Ling's long knife flashed, and he slashed at Yin Tianjin.

The two sides quickly fought each other, and the disciples of the Tang Sect were afraid of hurting their own people, so they did not dare to send secret weapons indiscriminately, and they rushed to join the battle group.

Qiu Ling shouted loudly, holding the knife with both hands and slashing horizontally and vertically, and the sound of wind and thunder on the blade of the knife forced Yin Tianjin to retreat again and again. Seeing that he couldn't resist, Mrs. Fang hurriedly raised her double swords to assist, and the two of them fought Qiu Ling, but they also attacked more and defended less, and the danger was full of dangers.

Ruan Xingang's big sleeves flew, and from time to time he shot out a shiny small axe, Jiang Lingxiu and Xuan Lingyu fought him, but they also seemed to be very difficult, and the battle was not enough, Xuan Lingyu was distracted, his left arm was scratched, and blood splattered.

The Sha brothers hooked Huo Huo four times, hooked, hugged, locked, hung, hooked and horizontal, ruthless and fast, chasing and forcing Zhu Yong, You Xiong and Yu brothers, the battle was not enough, a Tang Sect disciple took advantage of the gap to attack, and Yu Shangwen hung a color on his body.

Yin Tianjin and his entourage were nervous, Zhu Dongfan held a silver spear in his hand, and led four men who looked like martial artists to join the battle group, and while opposing the Tang Sect disciples who were swarming up, he shouted: "Withdraw quickly!

Everyone hurriedly retreated in the direction of Zhuangmen, and the enemy chased after them, and suddenly the arrow shot down from the wall, and a female disciple of the Tang Sect screamed in pain, and was already hit by the arrow. Qiu Ling didn't care about chasing the enemy, and while wielding a long knife and arrow, he shouted: "Withdraw to the forest!"

In this way, Zhu Dongfan and Yin Tianjin had already escorted everyone to retreat to the village and quickly closed the door.

The disciples of the Tang Sect retreated, and at the same time fired a hidden weapon to shoot back at the archers, and there was a painful sound on the wall, and someone was hit by the hidden weapon.

Qiu Ling led everyone back into the forest, out of the range of bows and arrows. The female disciple who had been hit by an arrow in the shoulder pressed her shoulder, gritted her teeth, and the two female disciples hurried over to support her, leaning her against the trunk of a cherry tree, and examining her injuries with concern.

The woman in purple who had asked the old man at the tea stall about the whereabouts of Yin Tianjin and his party stepped forward, threw the short knife in her hand, and said softly: "Sister Li, I'll pull out an arrow for you!"

In the sound of "bang", the girl in purple tore the clothes on Sister Li's shoulders, revealing a white tender shoulder arm with arrows inserted. The men were too busy, only Sha Lao Er glanced down and peeked quietly.

"Hold Sister Li's hand!" The girl in purple instructed the two sisters who were supporting Sister Li, looked at Sister Li, and said softly: "It's a little painful, you have to endure it." Sister Li looked into her eyes, nodded, gritted her teeth and closed her eyes.

The woman in purple pressed the skin around the arrow with her left hand, grabbed the shaft of the arrow with her right hand, bit it lightly, and pulled it out hard.

"Ah" screamed in pain, blood splattered, and the woman in purple had already pulled out the bloody arrow, "snapped", and threw it on the ground hatefully. Then he took out a porcelain bottle from his bosom, poured some white powder, and put it on Sister Li's bubbling wound, and then quickly took out a snow-white handkerchief from his sleeve, folded it twice, pressed it on the wound, and wrapped it tightly around the armpit with a strip of cotton cloth a few times to bandage the wound.

Sister Li's face was pale, cold sweat was dripping, she gritted her teeth and pressed the wound, and said softly: "Sister Zixuan, thank you!"

Although Sha Lao Er is fierce, he seems to be very pitiful and cherishes the jade, and he seems to grin when he looks distressed.

Qiu Ling stood quietly in front of everyone, looking at the villa through the gaps in the branches and leaves.

It is built against the mountain, with white walls and blue tiles, covering a wide area. In the middle is the majestic gate of the village, and there is a gatehouse on the gate. There are three stone staircases in front of the door, a lifelike white marble lion squatting on each side, and a red lacquered iron door with two large copper buckles is closed. On the left, right, and front three sides of the villa, there is a courtyard wall that is five or six feet high. On the courtyard walls of the left and right corners, there is also an arrow tower built on each side.

At this time, the purple-robed owner in his fifties was standing on the gatehouse with two courtyard martial artists, accompanying Yin Tianjin, looking around the forest, as if he was searching for the whereabouts of his party. Seven archers, armed with iron bows and arrows on their backs, walked restlessly back and forth on the wall, watching the movement in front of the village with full attention.

Qiu Ling saw the situation clearly, and thought: "The gate looks quite solid, and it is not easy to break open, but the wall of this courtyard is not too high, and most of us can jump on it." It seems that if you want to attack the village, you still have to jump through the courtyard wall...... Worse for the archers, as soon as they approached, they would fire their arrows, and the enemy would intercept us from a high position at the top of the wall to prevent us from jumping. The arrows can't hurt a few of us, but most of the Tang Sect's martial arts and light skills are poor, although they can attack with hidden weapons, they can get rid of those archers, but they will inevitably kill and injure a few, which is a troublesome thing...... Hey, it's good if Brother Yu is here, one arrow and one ......"

Ruan Xingang also secretly observed, and said to Qiu Ling in front of him: "Brother Qiu, I think, we can jump from the courtyard wall into the village." ”

Qiu Ling nodded and said softly: "But yes, I'm afraid that a few of us can get in, but most of them may not be able to ......."

Ruan Xingang bowed his head and asked in a low voice, "What should I do?...... Do you want to wait until the Heaven and Earth Twin Venerables and their party come before attacking?"

Qiu Ling shook his head and said, "No, this difficulty depends on others, and they will look down on our ......."

"That's the same!" Ruan Xingang sighed slightly, scratched his scalp, and said, "Let's think of a way again!"

Qiu Ling suddenly shouted, "Brother Tang Yi, please come here!"

Tang Yi was comforting the injured Sister Li in a low voice, and when he heard Qiu Ling calling him, he hurriedly got up and walked to his side.

"Brother Tang Yi, we want to attack from the top of the wall, do you see, can all of you jump on it?" asked Qiu Ling.

Tang Yi said: "Most of the jumps can be jumped, but they ...... Those archers are a nuisance...... Once you get close, you're going to be shot...... We hadn't thought of this beforehand, and we didn't have any protective tools like shields......"

Qiu Ling's expression was solemn, he nodded, muttered for a while, and said, "I don't think this will work?"

Tang Yi's eyes lit up and said, "This method is good!" Everyone listened and said yes one after another.

So they waved their swords and moved together, and in a short time they cut down several large piles of cherry branches, and while plucking the bright red cherries from the branches and eating them, they weaved their shields. After about half a pillar of incense, everyone had a simple shield made of branches.

Qiu Ling glanced at everyone one by one and said, "Miss Zixuan stays and takes care of Tang Li!" The rest of the people followed me and rushed over together, ready to jump onto the courtyard wall!"

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Qiu Ling held a shield in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, walked out of the cherry grove, and flew under the courtyard wall.

"Boom!" "Boom!" Two arrows shot down, "Poof!" "Poof!" inserted into the shield. Qiu Ling rose to his feet and jumped down to the wall.

The arrows covered one after another, and in the sound of "poof", they shot on the shield, and several Tang Sect disciples threw out sleeve arrows, throwing knives, and thistles, and in the scream of "ah", an archer fell off the wall.

A silver spear snatched his chest and pierced it, Qiu Ling abandoned the shield, grabbed the head of the gun with shaking hands, took advantage of the situation, and stood on the wall with strength. As soon as he stood firm, a knife of "swoo" slashed down at Zhu Dongfan, and the two flanks of the nursing courtyard grabbed it, and the two knives were used to seal the knife. As soon as Qiu Ling's left arm was sent, Zhu Dongfan couldn't stand and fell off the wall, but his hands still firmly held the barrel of the gun, almost bringing Qiu Ling down. Qiu Ling hurriedly abandoned the silver spear and faced the brave people who rushed up.

Yin Tianjin and Jiang Lingxiu couldn't stop Ruan Xingang and the Sha brothers, and they jumped off the wall one after another, and immediately became a mess. The walls were narrow, and they couldn't spread their bodies, so they all jumped into the courtyard and fought together.

The disciples of the Tang Sect jumped on the wall one after another and jumped towards the courtyard. In the end, one of the disciples who jumped up was shot in the thigh, screamed and fell upside down the wall, and immediately two feathered arrows flew over, "grabbing" and "grabbing" into his chest and abdomen.

The two sides immediately fought together in the courtyard, and the six archers did not dare to shoot again, so they drew their blades one after another and jumped into the courtyard to participate in the battle.

Mrs. Fang doubled her swords, protecting her children while resisting the enemy. Fang Yi was shocked and frightened, with red eyes and a sword desperately slashed, he actually slashed a Tang Sect disciple, but within a few moments, he was also cut on his leg.

Although all the families in the village were afraid, they saw that the owner of the village was also fighting hard, and they all trembled and brought knives, guns and clubs to help fight, but most of them did not know martial arts, and they were cut a few after a while.

Qiu Ling's four martial arts are strong, Yin Tianjin and Zhu Dongfan and other seven people surrounded and killed, Wu Zi resisted and could not help, after more than ten battles, a nurse was cut down, and You Xiong's left waist was also hung with color.

Seeing that everyone in the village was about to be unable to resist, they suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the village approaching, and a yellow shadow jumped over the wall like a bird and jumped down to the courtyard.

Qiu Ling was able to kill, a knife shook off the long sword of Zhu Yong, followed up, and was about to kill him with a knife, suddenly felt the wind behind him, hurriedly turned around to block a sword, his arm was faintly numb, his heart was shocked, and he glanced at it, and saw a yellow-robed Taoist chasing and approaching, Sen Han's sword tip was less than a foot away from his throat, and he was busy sealing it with a knife, and his body retreated.

Jiang Lingxiu and Xuan Lingyu looked at each other and shouted excitedly: "Master!" The person who came was naturally Zhenguan.

The two figures leaped over the wall again, and the volley and the sky fell into the courtyard.

Neither side expected to kill Zhenguan's master and apprentice, and they both slowed down for a while and looked at the three masters and apprentices.

Qiu Ling reacted quickly and shouted, "Withdraw!"

The Tang Sect disciples were close to the courtyard wall, turned around and rushed to the wall, Ling Kong and Ling Xiao couldn't stop so many people, only one person was injured in the arm, and then they were rushed away, watching them jump onto the wall.

Ruan Xingang and the Sha brothers quickly joined Qiu Ling, and while resisting the attacks of Zhenguan and others, they retreated to the corner of the wall and flew onto the wall.

Zhenguan shouted, "Where to go!" chased the four figures and flew over the wall. Qiu Ling and Ruan Xingang turned around to intercept, and the Sha brothers jumped out of the village.

Ling Kong, Ling Xiao, Yin Tianjin, and others jumped out of the village in succession to pursue, and when they saw that the Sha brothers and the Tang Sect disciples were fleeing in embarrassment towards the cherry forest, they all chased after them. Volley, Ling Xiao ran in the front, and just about to enter the forest, more than a dozen hidden weapons roared towards them, and they hurriedly swung their swords to shoot down the hidden weapons one by one. In this way, the enemy has rushed out more than ten feet away.

Tang Zixuan hugged the injured Tang Li, joined the fleeing companions, hurriedly jumped on the horse, and galloped wildly in the direction of the road.

Qiu Ling and Ruan Xin just jumped out of the village, Jiang Lingxiu, Zhu Dongfan and others hurriedly stepped forward to intercept, Qiu and Ruan were red-eyed, the tiger roared again and again, the blade light curtain wrapped the body, and rushed to the place where the horses were tied in the forest, everyone couldn't resist, and they were immediately rushed open a gap.

Zhenguan's sword was like a horse, flying to catch up, Qiu Lingfei got on the horse's back and cut off the horse's reins with a knife. Ruan Xingang's big sleeves flew, two white lights swirled, and a pair of stainless steel axes rose up, fiercely fighting Zhenguan in close combat.

"Let's go!" Qiu Ling rushed towards Zhenguan on his horse, and the long knife was slashed with the wind and thunder, and Zhenguan retreated half a step to block the knife. Ruan Xingang took the opportunity to jump on the horse's back, cut off the horse's reins with an axe, stretched out his hand to hit the horse's buttocks, and rushed forward. Qiu Ling slashed, turned his horse's head and ran.

Zhenguan's long sword came out of his hand and rushed towards Qiu Ling's heart like lightning. Qiu Ling reacted quickly, leaning over the horse's back when he couldn't make a move, and the long sword whistling past his back robe.

Ruan Xingang didn't expect a sword to suddenly fly over, and he was caught off guard, with a miserable scream of "ah", blood splattered, and his left arm and elbow were cut to the ground. But he was very brave, covered his broken arm, and urged the horse to gallop without stopping, and in the blink of an eye, the two of them had run dozens of feet away.

Everyone rushed up one after another, and Zhu Dongfan gasped: "Brother Zhenguan...... Let's go back to Zhuang and prepare horses to pursue!"

Zhen looked at the forest avenue where night was approaching, shook his head, and said, "Forget it, it's not easy to catch up!